Senior Software Engineer

The Company

Simpplr is Modern Intranet and EX unified. Our platform unifies employee engagement, enablement, and services, leveraging state-of-the-art AI models to deliver a seamless, cohesive, and personalized employee experience for everyone - wherever and however they work.

Our mission is to transform the work experience for billions of people across the world. Because we believe that when work is good, life is better.

Trusted by more than 700+ leading brands, including Penske, Splunk, Snowflake, Moderna, Eurostar, and AAA, our customers are achieving measurable improvements in employee engagement, productivity, and accelerated business performance.

Simpplr is headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA with offices in the UK, Canada, and India, and is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Tola Capital. Learn more at simpplr.com .

Role Summary

Do you have a solid back-end microservices experience and enjoy delivering a smooth user experience on the front-end? Even better, are you curious about working with AI and chatbots? We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer who’s comfortable to work Full Stack with Node/React/TypeScript tech stack to help us build the foundation of and deliver a new product line that will build the next phase of growth for Simpplr. You will be working cross-functionally with other stakeholders such as Product Manager, Design, Data Science, and Program Management and take ownership of delivering critical projects to production with speed and quality.

Simpplr Canada Engineering team follows hybrid model where we work up to (not more than) two days a week together for in-person collaboration in downtown Toronto (King & University area)

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work in a talented cross-funcional team to develop scalable microservices in Node with TypeScript and develop new user-facing features using React TypeScript on the fronten
• Build and maintain applications running on AWS and work with our existing AWS platform team to deploy infrastructure using Kubernetes
• Write automated unit tests and end-to-end tests for your code and services. Quality is incredibly important to us and everybody is responsible for it.
• Help influence the overall architecture and direction of the codebase as well as the wider product.
• Help establish best practices, guidelines, and processes to allow the team focus on what they do best - building the application
• Mentor and guide other team members to help them grow in their career

Requirements

• You think about scalability, system performance, and great user experience
• You are user focused – we solve our customer’s problems together; everybody has a say in planning, design & execution
• 7+ years of overall experience
• Back-end experience with Node.js, ideally with TypeScript and relevant database technologies
• Front-end experience with React, you should have a solid understanding of how and why it uses a virtual DOM, and you should be familiar with Accessibility
• Infrastructure experience, working with Kubernetes, Docker, and relevant cloud platform (AWS, Azure, CP)
• Working knowledge of supporting tools & frameworks such as Kafka, observability & monitoring tools, etc
• You love identifying new technologies, patterns, and techniques and planning out how we can apply them to improve productivity, code quality and user experience
• Experience using modern modular CSS strategies e.g styled components, emotion, etc (we use CSS Modules) and why globally scoped styles are bad.
• Good understanding of CI/CD, unit testing, and automated end-to-end testing using a framework like Cypress
• Strong knowledge and understanding of functional programming patterns
• Excited by working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Able to occasionally travel to our other offices in UK, New Delhi, and San Francisco

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